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2019 SESSION
HB 2458 Early childhood care and education; establishment, licensure.
Introduced by: R. Steven Landes | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Early childhood care and education; licensing. Requires the Board of Education to establish a statewide unified public-private system for early childhood care and education in the Commonwealth to be administered by the Board of Education, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the Department of Education. The bill transfers the authority to license and regulate child day programs and other early child care agencies from the Board of Social Services and Department of Social Services to the Board of Education and the Department of Education. The bill maintains current licensure, background check, and other requirements of such programs. The bill establishes the Early Childhood Innovation Fund for the purpose of facilitating regional public-private collaboration and to field test innovative strategies and evidence-based practices that support a robust system of comprehensive early childhood care and education services to deliver measurable school readiness outcomes and meet regional workforce support needs. Such provisions of the bill have a delayed effective date of July 1, 2021.
The bill requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish a plan for implementing the statewide unified early childhood care and education system and requires the Department of Social Services and the Department of Education to enter into a cooperative agreement to coordinate the transition. The bill provides that, beginning July 1, 2021, the Department of Education will be the lead agency for the administration of the Child Care and Development Block Grant and the Head Start Collaboration Office. Finally, the bill requires the Board of Education and the Board of Social Services to promulgate regulations to implement the provisions of the bill to become effective on July 1, 2021.
FULL TEXT
- 01/09/19 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102705D pdf
- 01/23/19 House: Committee substitute printed 19105282D-H1 pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
HISTORY
- 01/09/19 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102705D
- 01/09/19 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/18/19 House: Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #1
- 01/21/19 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 1-N)
- 01/21/19 House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/23/19 House: Reported from Education with substitute (20-Y 1-N)
- 01/23/19 House: Committee substitute printed 19105282D-H1
- 01/23/19 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/05/19 House: Left in Appropriations